Category: wandering & thinking

  • who cares

    who cares

    Explain a valuable life lesson you learned in 2025. No one cares. Hold up. Wait. Listen.  Whoa: I don’t mean that in a sad-sack, pity me kind of way. What I mean is that figuring out some perspective on the attention of others is actually, factually something that has taken me decades to put into

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  • forty nine

    forty nine

    Describe your 2025 in terms of fitness, health, mind and body. Healing.  There was a time when, privacy be damned, I’d disclose and lament any and all of my personal ailments on a blog like this… but needless to say those days are gone. It’s enough for you to know that I am now in

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  • poetic war

    poetic war

    Describe your 2025 in politics, culture, and the universe? No. Ugh. Ok.  I’ll bite …a little bit, for the blog. I was doing a little experiment the other week. I had a perfectly good reason to post a pointless video clip on social media the other day, but I didn’t want to use my main

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  • these things are

    these things are

    What object will forever remind you of 2025? One object? No. How about ten objects from the past year. Memories are not so simple these days. In no particular order… The Kobo eReader I bought mid-year to replace my aging Kindle marked a defiantly buy-Canadian shift away from giving all my money to American billionaires,

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  • actually right

    actually right

    What was your biggest achievement of the last year? Here it is again. I find I’m often getting tired of writing about my professional pursuits. And after all, sitting here penning out another post telling you all about them and how great it is going with the tech jobs is the so-called “right” answer. I’m

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